The Lakeland University women's basketball team settled a score from an overtime loss to Concordia University Chicago earlier this season, turning the tables for a 90-85 win over the Cougars in overtime Saturday at the Moose & Dona Woltzen Gymnasium.

The Muskies heated up after a slow start, withstood a frantic comeback by Concordia and then took over in overtime for their sixth straight win, and their second straight big one this week at home after knocking off nationally ranked Wisconsin Lutheran College on Tuesday.

Lakeland (14-7 overall) also moved into a tie with CUC for fourth in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference standings at 11-5 and is now just one game out of a tie for second. It's part of a late-season run that is beginning to mirror the Muskies' from a year ago, when Lakeland won 14 of 16 to close the regular season and then won the NACC Tournament to clinch a bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament.

Lakeland scored the first seven points in the overtime period in never trailing during the extra session. The Muskies still had to make four free throws in the final 10 seconds to salt the game away, though, as the Cougars (15-6 overall) sliced an eight-point deficit to three on two occasions in the final seconds.

The Muskies won by coming back from a slow start when they trailed by as many as 12 points in the first quarter and by 10 points late in the first half before coming alive from outside. Lakeland was ice cold much of the first half from outside, missing 16 of its first 17 three-point tries.

Trailing 34-24 late in the second quarter, though, Abby Nylund (Fr.-Crystal Falls, Mich.) hit a three-pointer, and from there the Muskies were an entirely different team from distance. Lakeland hit 8 of its last 12 three-point tries the rest of the way, including Nylund canning another just before halftime to tie the score at 34-34 going to the break.

The Muskies also had a huge advantage inside and outrebounded Concordia 55-37, with three players piling up double-doubles. Miranda Jacobson (Jr.-Felch, Mich.) piled up her fifth straight double-double with 20 points and 12 rebounds, Megan Will (Fr.-Lake Mills, Wis.) posted career highs with 19 points and 10 boards and Maddy Doll (Sr.-Florence, Wis.) added 10 points and 11 rebounds, including seven points in overtime.

Lakeland withstood 27 turnovers, including eight in the fourth quarter when the Cougars made a late charge. The Muskies built a 10-point lead early in the fourth when Rachel Stankevich (Sr.-Goodman, Wis.) hit a three-pointer, but Concordia came back to take the lead at 69-68 on a layup by Taylor Jacobson with 2 minutes, 45 seconds left.

The teams traded the lead multiple times in the final minutes of regulation, and both had a chance to win it at the free throw line. Lakeland missed three of six foul shots in the final 1:38, while CUC's Crystal Corr missed the second of two free throws with eight seconds left, coming just after she had tied the game at 73-73.

The Muskies shot 31 of 68 from the field (45.6%) and in all had four players in double figures with Stankevich scoring 13 points and also added nine rebounds plus five assists and four steals. Rachel Hasko (So.-Racine, Wis.) also finished with six points off the bench plus a career-high six assists.

Sophia Leon scored 18 points off the bench to lead the Cougars, who shot 39.7% (31 of 78), cooling off after making 9 of 17 in the first quarter. Taylor Jacobson was held to 14 points before fouling out in overtime, well off the 30 points she scored in the teams' first meeting four weeks earlier, when CUC rallied from an 18-point fourth quarter deficit to win in overtime.

Lakeland is on the road next when it travels to face Rockford University on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Rockford, Ill.